One Measure of Desperation

The Washington Post reports we now have conclusive proof that Jamestown settlers resorted to cannibalism to survive. Dark times force desperate measures:

The first chops, to the forehead, did not go through the bone and are perhaps evidence of hesitancy about the task.

From our perspective in the 21st century, the European colonists’ success in North America is a foregone conclusion. But it wasn’t always so.

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